Consider three events: In January 1981 at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, electronics companies announced future looking products known as the “camcorder,” the “compact disc player” and the Commodore VIC-20, the predecessor to the flashy Commodore 64. Four months later, on May 11, Jamaican national treasure Bob Marley passed away at the age of 36. Now jump forward 30 years to January 2011 when an upstart consumer electronics brand bearing the name House of Marley announced a full line of earphones, earbuds and iPod docks at CES 2011.
Let’s not dwell on the irony that the man who died that year is still culturally important, while “the future” represented by the baubles launched at Winter CES 1981 have long since suffered their demise at the hands of iPhones, HD Flips and Honeycomb tablets. Instead, let’s start more simply, as in: Bob Marley branded headphones? Seriously? What would Bob think of that? Read more »
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